Good Studying Music...

Studying comfortably and relaxed are two of the most important factors I attribute to academic success. I always find that in order to do so it helps to have a nice combination of music playing while you study.

Now, some may prefer to study with no music whatsoever, and that's cool, but I suggest trying it with some of the selections I recommend below. You never know, it might help.

The biggest keys I find to nice studying music are the lack of lyrics and fairly soft songs. We're not talking really quiet boring songs, just nothing to sharp or rough, like say, an instrumental of a Godsmack song.

Classical is always a good place to start. Many speak of the Mozart effect, whereby people are supposed to get higher marks if they study and read while listening to Mozart. I think there is something to that, but it also covers a wide range of classical composers; Beethoven, Bach, Handel and Chopin, to name a few. 

If playing around with classical, I find four specific instruments to be particularly nice. The first is the piano, which kind of speaks for itself. The violin and the classical guitar are also very nice. My favourite is by far the cello, which seems to span so many different levels of sound. Very cool. Give it a chance some time.

But classical can wear on you a bit from time to time. You can always try switching it up to some more ambient, electronic music. You can find this almost anywhere. I find mine on the online radio station, Iceberg Radio, under the genre 'Chill'. 

But my all-time favourite studying music is by a band from Texas called 'Explosions in the Sky'. They're an instrumental band that uses typical instruments you would find in a modern rock band and they use lots of high guitar. A lot of their songs are in movies, in those reflective and/or dramatic scenes, but they're wicked. They are a nice change of pace from classical. Highly recommend them.

Roc on, kids.